Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-10

Often Il is scrub, with coarse parts,
and without ability to go distances.
Tbis animal il crossed uponathoroush-
bred. TO obtain lungs and whalebone
mske-up. The foal, in order TO be
made O trotier, must be exercised IN the
Gait from the first handling; and It's
inherited trotting qualities must be do
velopcd by diliPent practice and patient
culture. Generally, good results are oo-
tanned in the first generation. II again
iudiciously crossed. snccess will surely
arrive with the second; and we shall
ihep have the mechanism OF the natu--
,al trotter combined with the hard
bone. tough sinew, firm flesh, elastic
lungs, high spirit, anddivine @stfumo OF
the thoroughbred. Sometimes, as
in the case OF Planet, we find the trot-
ting anatomy, action, and propensity,
originally in the thoroughbrei; ana
then all that il needed is development
of the native talent. When we find such
thoroughbred Eureka I'VE may
send scrubs to the plow and depend
exclusively on development.
CHCfb WITH SClsJSo ~ of4oDpA 40 ioo-
sIDJF.
Fire results are not infrequently OBJ
tanned from very little crossing with I'M
known blood. In WaUGcc's Monthly
(volume k. page 4S1) is TIE remark,
$50 far as intelligent progress has been
madc in establishing breed Of trotters,
it so turns out that our greatest brood
mares have had but G single well-de-
fined trotting cross, and the writer in
stances Green Mountain Maid and
Flora, by Harry Clay Miss Russell,
dam Of Maud S, by Pilot, Jr. Dolly,
by Mambrino Chief and Gretchen, by
Mambrino Pilot. He mig':t have mem
toned more conspicuous example OF
the class in Nancy Pope, the dam of
Pilot, Jr. She was q gray, by the
thoroughbred horse Havoc, son of Sir
Charles, out of Powancey, who was by
Sir Alfred, and was granddaughter OF
imported Castisnira, the celebrated dam,
OF the more celebrated Sir Archy.
Pilot, Jr., was by old Pilot, black
Canadian PAGER. A writer in The
Horsen1an of March 10, 1887, says on
this subject: "Why attribute the great
qualities of Pilot, Jr., to his sire and
ignore his dam? There are strong rea-
sons for believing that he was really a
mothers son. His sire-old Pilot
was o PAGER the colt never paced a
step in his life and never sired PAGER.
The sire was black the colt was gray.
The dam was trotter; the son was the
same, and he sired nine 2:30 trotters.
Five of Pilot Jr.'s 2:30 trotters were
gray, and so is his best son, Bayard.
Miss Russell, the dam of Maud S., and
Midnight, the dam of Jay-Eye-See,
are gray daughters of Pilot, Jr. Kate
Almont's second dam was a gray. In
short, nearly every one OF the great
daughters OF Pilot, Jr., took the color
of his dam, Nancy Pope, and not that
of his sire, old Pilot, and in gait were
trotters. We have an accurate picture
of Pilot, Jr., which shows him to have
been a high-headed, rDngy, bloodlike-
looking horse, with little resemblance
to the Canadian PAGER, his sire. Nancy
Fope's dam may have sprung from the
loins OF old Messenger himself, who
was gray"
Mr.. Wallace, publishing before all
the proofs of Nancy Pope's paternity
were elected, states that her sire was
horse of unknown blood; but Mr..
Helm, q very high authority in such
matters, who has given mach attention
to these subjects, declares that she was
by Havoc, and that is now an ac-
cepted fact. Nancy Pope's won
derfnl progeny, the most distinguish
cd of whom are Maud S. and JAY
Eye-See, prove by their performances
that they came from noble blood and
are not unworthy OF descent doubly
from Castianiva Through Powancey, the
mother of Havoc, and from both Do
med and Castianira through Sir Charles,
bis sire. Their respective sires were
both sons of Hambletonian.
The mechanism OF the PAGER and
trotter is philosophically the same, and
here in the case of Pilot, Jr., was the
trottingmechanism impaired by a single
cross by the scrub sire who possessed
it. through dam nearly if not quite
thoroughbred, to descendants in a de-
gree that gave them lofty eminence in
the trotting calendar.
TWO GREATEST TRoTTERs.
another lesson taught by this exam
pie is that the Havoc cross, by bringing
new thorough blood into the descend
ants of the great Hambletonian, pro-
duced in the first generation such ex-
cellent results and Incompatible per-
formers as Maud S. and Jay-Eye-See.
Much was doubtless due to the Boston
Diomed blood, which came to Maud s.
from her thoroughbred granddam Sally
Russell, and to the Lexington-Boston-
Diomed blood, which came TO Jay-Eye-
See from his thoroughbred granddam
Twilight, daughter of Lexington. But L
CONSIDER that Pilot, Jr., 50 rich IN the
blood of Diomed and Castianira, stands
ont as a great landmark in illustration
of the advantage, If scrub blood must
he employed at al, of breeding it to
mares wholly or largely infused with
thorough blood.
BLOOD TELLs WITHOUT AID FROM PEDI-
GREEs.
In the absence of positive knowledge
we are driven to conjecture concerning
the dam Of Nancy Pope. Results
argue trumpet tongued that she must
have been endowed with what the Ara
bans call aSu blood. If / find on the
road a dog having all the marks and
qualities OF the shepherd breed, and If
IN taking it to my flock of sheep it as
sumes watch over them and conducts
| itself like a thoroughbred Colly, do
not need a written pedigree to be con-
WINGED Of that dogs trne species. 30
| likewise if ! see mare with all the
points and qualities of thoroughbred,
like Lady Suffolk, or Flora Temple, or
Maud s., have right to conclude
that that mare is largely if not entirely
dsit. Consider how careless OF pedi-
grees the American breeders OF horses
were in all the long period Of time an-
tecedent to 1929, when pedigrees first
began Systematically to be written
out and recorded. Reflect that there
is authentic record of the impor-
tation Of nearly two Thousand pedi-
greed thoroughbred horses and mares
into the United States and colonies
and have there not been at least as
many rs two thousand foals that came
exclusively from these imported IA
vorites? Calculate, then, how many
| 1aocon1apfe fhia vaat thrnuO M NEARLY